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Kamlesh Sood was only 8 years old when her family made the journey from her home in Jhelum, and then Sukkur in Sindh province, to Ludhiana during the harrowing events of the 1947 Partition of the South Asian subcontinent. In this excerpt from our conversation in Hindi and Punjabi at her home in Ludhiana, Punjab, Kamlesh describes her home and life in Jhelum before the events of 1947 changed everything. Images: Portraits of Kamlesh Sood and her husband in Ludhiana, Punjab.